We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.
Interpretation
True security comes from knowing our basic needs are met close to home and surrounded by community.
This quote highlights the connection between personal security and the presence of abundance and relationships in our immediate environment. It suggests that when we can see our food growing and have friends nearby, we feel a deeper sense of safety and belonging, emphasizing the importance of self-sufficiency and community support in our lives.
In practice
This quote can be shared in discussions about sustainable living and community gardening.
There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help. They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.
I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
Funerals...are for the living.
How terrible would it have been if I had come out with some watered-down version of who I am? People fell in love with the real me, and I still feel blessed that that was how the journey began.
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